OpenAI, Amazon Ink $38 Billion Computing Power Deal

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the Snowflake Summit 2025 in San Francisco on June 2, 2025. Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesOpenAI has signed a $38 billion agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS), marking one of the ChatGPT developer’s biggest steps to expand beyond Microsoft to meet its surging demand for computing power.Under the seven-year deal announced on Nov. 3, OpenAI will immediately begin running its artificial intelligence (AI) workloads on AWS infrastructure, tapping into hundreds of thousands of Nvidia graphics processing units hosted in U.S. data centers.